The Alternative Fuels Tracker is a comprehensive database of over 1,600 production facilities throughout the world, with the corresponding data of production capacity, fuel, feedstock, and process technology by company from 2005 to 2015. Additionally, government incentive and mandate information pinpoints specific regions or fuels to identify opportunities for capacity growth. The Alternative Fuels Tracker is mainly driven by direct conversations with suppliers, technology providers, and other key stakeholders in the space.

Using the Alternative Fuels Tracker allows players in this space to act on government support and mandates (and the progress to those targets), capitalize on emerging capacity and technologies, get ahead of feedstock shortages and developments across the globe, and profit from the movement of capacity from dominant areas today (e.g., U.S., Brazil, Germany) to emerging regions (e.g., China, India). Leading fuel off-takers, OEM’s, energy regulators, material suppliers, feedstock suppliers, and energy companies use the Alternative Fuels Tracker to drive decision making.

The Lux Research Automotive Battery Tracker is a comprehensive database of the plug-in vehicles and hybrids sold around the world, analyzing not only unit sales but also the batteries that they use, and quantifying the resulting impact across the energy storage value chain. The data is a combination of actual vehicle sales, battery technology information, and supplier relationships. Among the details that the Automotive Battery Tracker follows are battery chemistry type (like Li-ion and NiMH), country of sale, cathode choice, pack size, and cell maker.

Using the Automotive Battery Tracker allows players in energy storage to target the OEMs that account for increasing amounts of battery demand, and capitalize on shifting trends in battery chemistry and pack architectures. Clients can unearth regional trends in drivetrain preferences and get ahead of a shifting cell supplier landscape where some are facing overcapacity and bankruptcy while others are making remarkable gains in market share. The Automotive Battery Tracker helps those in energy storage identify the most promising vehicle applications, the fastest-growing regions, and the strongest potential partners.

This customizable and dynamic tool is updated on a quarterly basis, and features easy graphic and data outputs for instant insertion into any reporting format.

The Bio-based Materials and Chemicals Tracker is part of the Bio-based Materials and Chemicals Intelligence program, is updated once a year, and delivered in Excel. It tracks capacity expansion of emerging bio-based developers, tracking pilot, demo, and commercial plans of over 200 companies.

It is mainly driven through our direct interactions with the key innovators in the bio-based space, including regular interviews and direct communication with company executives, as well as their customers and partners. Using data obtained in these conversations, augmented with targeted secondary research, capacity is captured, categorized and analyzed.

Chemical companies

The tracker provides market sizing data to show which chemicals are coming online and where, representing competitive assessments and lists of potential partners

Engineering firms

The tracker shows a detailed and comprehensive list of potential customers/partners

The Lux Research Grid Storage Tracker, built upon data gathered from primary interviews with technology developers, is a customizable database and tool that keeps track of grid storage projects around the world from conception through operation and completion. The Grid Storage Tracker details each project’s technology, technology provider, status, size, location, cost, and applications and breaks down the market for battery components by cathode, anode, separator, and electrolyte.

This dynamic tool is updated semi-annually and supports a comprehensive quantity of easily customized graphical and data outputs ready for instant insertion into any reporting format.

The solar industry has been plagued over the past few years by destructive boom and bust cycles, clearly indicating that vendors – from polysilicon to module makers – have made a mad dash to add capacity, even as the market was turning down. This overcapacity has had disastrous effects on industry-wide pricing and company solvency, and has triggered an industry-wide shakeout that is still unraveling. To date, the lack of clear and accurate data on production and capacity at each step of the value chain has exacerbated the capacity build-up, while leading to unreasonably high market size forecasts through double-counting of capacity and inaccurate discounting of proposed future capacity.

To help accurately manage expectations and identify supply trends, Lux Research has developed the Solar Supply Tracker, the most accurate industry supply tracker to date – which pulls on primary interviews with manufacturers at all steps on the value chain and Lux Research's critical analysis of technology feasibility for emerging technologies.

The Solar Supply Tracker, updated semi-annually, is a flexible platform that allows the user to input proprietary data and manipulate Lux Research’s underlying assumptions. This dynamic tool supports a comprehensive quantity of easily customized graphical and data outputs ready for instant insertion into any reporting format.